AUSTIN | Waterline | 1,034 Feet | 73 Floors | T/O

[We vs us]

Does anyone else feel like this building is a fluke? The fact that we, a growing but still medium-sized city, are getting a supertall? Every time I drive past I feel like this is the culmination of a very intense but very short-lived period -- namely the pre-pandemic and pandemic years, from, say 2018 through 2021, where it seemed like anything that was proposed could get funding and get built. It really took the confluence of some very specific factors to produce something like this, IMO -- and honestly I can't say that I see the same conditions cropping back up any time soon.